Procurement List Addition

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List Addition

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Addition to the Procurement List.

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SUMMARY: This action adds to the Procurement List a service to be

furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have

other severe disabilities.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 25, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Square 3, suite 403, 1735 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202-3461.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beverly Milkman, (703) 603-7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 22, 1994, the Committee for

Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published

notice (59 F.R. 19164) of proposed addition to the Procurement List.

Comments were received from the current contractor for this

service. The contractor alleged that loss of the contract would have a

devastating impact on the company by removing a substantial part of its

sales. The contractor claimed that it is currently a year and a half

into a contract for this service which, if all options are exercised,

will last three years. The contractor asked the Committee not to take

its contract at this point and to take it only through winning a

competition against the company.

The percentage of the contractor's sales which this service

represents and the fact that the contractor has only performed the

service for 18 months led the Committee to conclude that the addition

of the service will not have a severe adverse impact on the contractor.

The addition of the service to the Procurement List will not affect the

contractor's current contract. However, the Committee has been informed

by the contracting activity that the contract does not have option

provisions allowing it to be extended for a total period of three

years, so the contract will expire at the end of the current contract

period regardless of whether or not the Committee adds the service to

the Procurement List.

The purpose of the Committee's program is to create employment for

people with severe disabilities by requiring Government agencies to go

to nonprofit agencies employing these people when they purchase certain

commodities and services. Once these items are added to the Procurement

List, the commenting contractor and others are not able to compete

against the nonprofit agencies. There is no requirement that the

nonprofit agency win a competition against the current contractor

before a commodity or service can be added to the Procurement List.

After consideration of the material presented to it concerning

capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the service, fair

market price, and impact of the addition on the current or most recent

contractors, the Committee has determined that the service listed below

are suitable for procurement by the Federal Government under 41 U.S.C.

46-48c and 41 CFR 51-2.4.

I certify that the following action will not have a significant

impact on a substantial number of small entities. The major factors

considered for this certification were:

1. The action will not result in any additional reporting,

recordkeeping or other compliance requirements for small entities other

than the small organizations that will furnish the service to the

Government.

2. The action does not appear to have a severe economic impact on

current contractors for the service.

3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish

the service to the Government.

4. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would

accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-

48c) in connection with the service proposed for addition to the

Procurement List.

Accordingly, the following service is hereby added to the

Procurement List:

Janitorial/Custodial, Federal Building, 100 Bluestone Road, Mount Hope,

West Virginia.

This action does not affect current contracts awarded prior to the

effective date of this addition or options exercised under those

contracts.

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 94-16047 Filed 6-30-94; 8:45 am]

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